That's how I right all of my swing apps - I size EVERYTHING by reference to the current system font size.
But if you say that Pivot can scale the entire device host that would be a pretty cool approach :-) Todd Volkert wrote: >> Pixels are considered a device-independent unit of measure in Pivot. The >> idea is that super-high resolution monitors would increase the scale factor >> of the display host to compensate. Microsoft's WPF takes a similar approach. >> I'm not sure exactly how Vista handles it, but I'm guessing that it allows >> you to scale the entire UI rather than simply increasing the font size. >> Apple has also been moving towards a fully-scalable UI - maybe we'll see it >> in 10.6. >> > > But what if for accessibility's sake, the user has jacked up their > system font to 200%, then they run a Pivot app, and everything's too > small? It'd be nice if we could detect that condition and auto-scale > the display host such that they could see the app :) >
